Browsing by Author "Wiersema, K."

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    • A case of mistaken identity GRB 060912A and the nature of the long-short GRB divide 

      Levan, A.; Jakobsson, P.; Hurkett, C.; Tanvir, N.; Gorosabel, J.; Vreeswijk, P.M.; Rol, E.; Chapman, R.; Gehrels, N.; O'Brien, O.T.; Osborne, J.P.; Priddey, R.; Kouveliotou, C.; Starling, R.L.; Vanden Berk, D.; Wiersema, K. (2007)

    • The cosmic build-up of dust and metals : Accurate abundances from GRB-selected star-forming galaxies at 1.7 < z < 6.3 

      Heintz, K. E.; Cia, A. De; Thöne, C. C.; Krogager, J. -K.; Yates, R. M.; Vejlgaard, S.; Konstantopoulou, C.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Watson, D.; Narayanan, D.; Wilson, S. N.; Arabsalmani, M.; Campana, S.; D'Elia, V.; Pasquale, M. De; Hartmann, D. H.; Izzo, L.; Jakobsson, P.; Kouveliotou, C.; Levan, A.; Li, Q.; Malesani, D. B.; Melandri, A.; Milvang-Jensen, B.; Møller, P.; Palazzi, E.; Palmerio, J.; Petitjean, P.; Pugliese, G.; Rossi, A.; Saccardi, A.; Salvaterra, R.; Savaglio, S.; Schady, P.; Stratta, G.; Tanvir, N. R.; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Vergani, S. D.; Wiersema, K.; Wijers, R. A. M. J.; Zafar, T. (2023-11-15)
      The chemical enrichment of dust and metals in the interstellar medium of galaxies throughout cosmic time is one of the key driving processes of galaxy evolution. Here we study the evolution of the gas-phase metallicities, ...

    • Detailed radio view on two stellar explosions and their host galaxy : XRF 080109/SN 2008D and SN 2007uy in NGC 2770 

      van der Horst, A.J.; Kamble, A.P.; Paragi, Z.; Sage, L.J.; Pal, S.; Taylor, G.B.; Kouveliotou, C.; Granot, J.; Ramirez-Ruiz, E.; Ishwara-Chandra, C.H.; Oosterloo, T.; Wijers, R.A.M.J.; Wiersema, K.; Strom, R.G.; Bhattacharya, D.; Rol, E.; Starling, R.L.; Curran, P.; Garrett, M.A. (2011)
      The galaxy NGC 2770 hosted two core-collapse supernova (SN) explosions, SN 2008D and SN 2007uy, within 10 days of each other and 9 years after the first SN of the same type, SN 1999eh, was found in that galaxy. In particular, ...

    • Early spectroscopic identification of SN 2008D 

      Malesani, D.; Fynbo, J.; Hjorth, J.; Leloudas, G.; Sollerman, J.; Stritzinger, M.; Vreeswijk, P.M.; Watson, D.; Gorosabel, J.; Michalowski, M.; Thone, C.C.; Augusteijn, T.; Bersier, D.; Jakobsson, P.; Jaunsen, A.O.; Ledoux, C.; Levan, A.; Milvang-Jensen, B.; Rol, E.; Tanvir, N.; Wiersema, K.; Xu, D. (2009)
      SN 2008D was discovered while following up an unusually bright X-ray transient (XT) in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2770. We present early optical spectra (obtained 1.75 days after the XT) which allowed the first identification ...

    • An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy 

      Levan, Andrew; Tanvir, Nial; Cenko, S.B.; Perley, D.A.; Wiersema, K.; Bloom, J.S.; Fruchter, A.S.; Postigo, A.; O'Brien, O.T.; Butler, N.R.; van der Horst, A.J.; Leloudas, G.; Morgan, A.N.; Misra, K.; Bower, G.C.; Farihi, J.; Tunnicliffe, R.L.; Modjaz, M.; Silverman, J.M.; Hjorth, J.; Thone, C.C.; Cucchiara, A.; Ceron, J.M.C.; Castro-Tirado, A.J.; Arnold, J.A.; Bremer, M.; Brodie, J.P.; Carroll, T.; Cooper, M.C.; Curran, P.; Cutri, R.M.; Ehle, J.; Forbes, D.; Fynbo, J.; Gorosabel, J.; Graham, J.; Hoffman, D.I.; Guziy, S.; Jakobsson, Pall; Kamble, A.P.; Kerr, T.H.; Kasliwal, M.M.; Kouveliotou, C.; Kocevski, D.; Law, N.M.; Nugent, P.; Ofek, E.O.; Poznanski, D.; Quimby, R.M.; Rol, E.; Romanowsky, A.J.; Sanchez-Ramirez, R.; Schulze, S.; Singh, N.; Van Spaandonk, Lieke; Starling, R.L.; Strom, R.G.; Tello, J.C.; Vaduvescu, O.; Wheatley, P.J.; Wijers, R.A.M.J.; Winters, J.M.; Xu, D. (2011)
      Variable x-ray and gamma-ray emission is characteristic of the most extreme physical processes in the universe. We present multiwavelength observations of a unique gamma-ray-selected transient detected by the Swift satellite, ...

    • GRB 060206 and the quandary of achromatic breaks in afterglow light curves 

      Curran, P.; van der Horst, A.J.; Wijers, R.A.M.J.; Starling, R.L.; Castro-Tirado, A.J.; Fynbo, J.; Gorosabel, J.; Jarvinen, A.S.; Malesani, D.; Rol, E.; Tanvir, N.; Wiersema, K.; Burleigh, M.R.; Casewell, S.L.; Dobbie, P.D.; Guziy, S.; Jakobsson, P.; Jelinek, M.; Laursen, P.; Levan, A.; Mundell, C.G.; Naranen, J.; Piranomonte, S. (2007)

    • GRB 090902B: afterglow observations and implications 

      Pandey, S.B.; Swenson, C.A.; Perley, D.A.; Guidorzi, C.; Wiersema, K.; Malesani, D.; Akerlof, C.; Ashley, M.C.B.; Bersier, D.; Cano, Z.; Gomboc, A.; Ilyin, I.; Jakobsson, P.; Kleiser, I.K.W.; Kobayashi, S.; Kouveliotou, C.; Levan, A.; McKay, T.A.; Melandri, A.; Mottram, C.J.; Mundell, C.G.; O'Brien, P.T.; Phillips, A.; Rex, J.M.; Siegel, M.H.; Smith, R.J.; Steele, I.A.; Stratta, G.; Tanvir, N.; Weights, D.; Yost, S.A.; Yuan, F.; Zheng, W. (2010)
      The optical-infrared afterglow of the Large Area Telescope (LAT)-detected long-duration burst, GRB 090902B, has been observed by several instruments. The earliest detection by ROTSE-IIIa occurred 80 minutes after detection ...

    • GRB 160410a: The first chemical study of the interstellar medium of a short GRB 

      Fernández, J. F. Agüí; Thöne, C. C.; Kann, D. A.; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Selsing, J.; Schady, P.; Yates, R. M.; Greiner, J.; Oates, S. R.; Malesani, D.; Xu, D.; Klotz, A.; Campana, S.; Rossi, A.; Perley, D. A.; Blazek, M.; D'Avanzo, P.; Giunta, A.; Hartmann, D.; Heintz, K. E.; Jakobsson, P.; C., C. Kirkpatrick IV; Kouveliotou, C.; Melandri, A.; Pugliese, G.; Salvaterra, R.; Starling, R. L. C.; Tanvir, N. R.; Vergani, S. D.; Wiersema, K. (2023-03-01)
      Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are produced by the coalescence of compact binary systems which are remnants of massive stars. GRB 160410A is classified as a short-duration GRB with extended emission and is currently the ...

    • Late-time observations of GRB 080319B: jet break, host galaxy and accompanying supernova 

      Tanvir, N.; Rol, E.; Levan, A.; Svensson, K.; Fruchter, A.S.; Granot, J.; O'Brien, P.T.; Wiersema, K.; Starling, R.L.; Jakobsson, P.; Fynbo, J.; Hjorth, J.; Curran, P.; van der Horst, A.J.; Kouveliotou, C.; Racusin, J.L.; Burrows, D.N.; Genet, F. (2010)
      The Swift-discovered GRB 080319B was by far the most distant source ever observed at naked-eye brightness, reaching a peak apparent magnitude of 5.3 at a redshift of z = 0.937. We present our late-time optical (Hubble Space ...

    • A LOFAR prompt search for radio emission accompanying X-ray flares in GRB 210112A 

      Hennessy, A.; Starling, R. L. C.; Rowlinson, A.; Ruiter, I. de; Kumar, A.; Eyles-Ferris, R. A. J.; Ror, A. K.; Anderson, G. E.; Gourdji, K.; Horst, A. J. van der; Pandey, S. B.; Shimwell, T. W.; Steeghs, D.; Stylianou, N.; Veen, S. ter; Wiersema, K.; Wijers, R. A. M. J. (2023-11-01)
      The composition of relativistic gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets and their emission mechanisms are still debated, and they could be matter or magnetically dominated. One way to distinguish these mechanisms arises because a ...

    • On the nature of the short duration GRB 050906 

      Levan, A.; Tanvir, N.; Jakobsson, P.; Chapman, R.; Hjorth, J.; Priddey, R.; Fynbo, J.; Hurley, K.; Jensen, B.L.; Johnson, R.; Gorosabel, J.; Castro-Tirado, A.J.; Jarvis, M.J.; Watson, D.; Wiersema, K. (2008)

    • Probing cosmic chemical evolution with gamma-ray bursts: GRB 060206 at z = 4.048 

      Fynbo, J.; Starling, R.L.; Ledoux, C.; Wiersema, K.; Thoene, C.C.; Sollerman, J.; Jakobsson, P.; Hjorth, J.; Watson, D.; Vreeswijk, P.M.; Moller, P.; Rol, E.; Gorosabel, J.; Naranen, J.; Wijers, R.A.M.J.; Bjornsson, G.; Castro Ceron, J.M.; Curran, P.; Hartmann, D.H.; Holland, S.T.; Jensen, B.L.; Levan, A.; Limousin, M.; Kouveliotou, C.; Nelemans, G.; Pedersen, K.; Priddey, R.; Tanvir, N. (2006)

    • The Short Gamma-Ray Burst Revolution 

      Hjorth, J.; Levan, A.; Tanvir, N.; Starling, R.L.; Klose, S.; Kouveliotou, C.; Feron, C.; Ferrero, P.; Fruchter, A.S.; Fynbo, J.; Gorosabel, J.; Jakobsson, P.; Kann, D.A.; Pedersen, K.; Ramirez-Ruiz, E.; Sollerman, J.; Thone, C.C.; Watson, D.; Wiersema, K.; Xu, D. (2006)